Planetarization and Heimatlosigkeit, Part 2

See P. Kleingeld, “Romantic Cosmopolitanism: Novalis’s ‘Christianity or Europe,’” Journal of the History of Philosophy 46, no. 2 (2008).

Jacques Derrida, The Other Heading: Reflections on Today’s Europe, trans. P.-A. Brault and M. B. Naas (Indiana University Press, 1992).

Edmund Husserl, “Foundational Investigations of the Phenomenological Origin of the Spatiality of Nature: The Originary Ark, the Earth, Does Not Move,” in Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Husserl at the Limits of Phenomenology: Including Texts by Edmund Husserl, trans. L. Lawlor and B. Bergo (Northwestern University Press, 2001).

“The nihilistic consequences of contemporary natural science (together with its attempts to escape into some beyond). The industry of its pursuit eventually leads to self-disintegration, opposition, an antiscientific mentality. Since Copernicus man has been rolling from the center toward X.” Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power, trans. W. Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale (Vintage, 1968), 8.

Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (University of Chicago Press, 2002), 1.

D. Williams, The Philosophy of Japanese Wartime Resistance: A Reading, with Commentary, of the Complete Texts of the Kyoto School Discussions of “The Standpoint of World History and Japan” (Routledge, 2014), 115; see also K. Nishitani, M. Kosaka, S. Suzuki, and I. Koyama, The Standpoint of World History and Japan (『世界史的立場 と日本』) (Chūō Kōron, 1943), 11.

Williams, The Philosophy of Japanese Wartime Resistance, 118. The translation continues as follows: “… instead of the region that dominates the rest. Europe is ceasing to be the world,” but this “complementary” part is not to be found in the Japanese original; see The Standpoint of World History and Japan, 15.

Yoshimi Takeuchi, in his book Overcoming Modernity (1959), attempted to analyze a “dual structure of the Greater East Asia War,” which is at the same time a war against Western imperialism and a war of colonial invasion. See Y. Takeuchi, Overcoming Modernity (近代の超克) (Chikuma Shobō, 1983), 83; Wataru Hiromatsu, on the other hand, in his On “Overcoming Modernity”: A Perspective on the History of Shōwa Thought (「近代の超克」論―昭和思想史への一視角) (Kōdansha, 1989), replied that the Kyoto School thinkers wanted to overcome modernity from a culturalist point of view and undermine the question of capitalism, especially Japan’s turn toward state monopoly capitalism. Many notable Japanese thinkers, including Masao Maruyama and Kojin Karatani, participated in this discussion, which is yet to be sufficiently evaluated. For a historical survey in English, see N. Matsui, “‘Overcoming Modernity,’ Capital, and Life System: Divergence of ‘Nothing’ in the 1970s and 1980s,” Journal of East Asian Philosophy, 2023.

Jan Patočka, Europa und Nach-Europa: Zur Phänomenologie einer Idee (Karl Alber, 2020).

Martin Heidegger, On Time and Being, trans. J. Stambaugh (Harper & Row, 1972), 59.